Making American Tradition: Visions and Revisions from Ben Franklin to Alice WalkerRutgers University Press, 1990 - 252 psl. Strout shows how an American tradition has developed through the responses of writers to the works of previous writers. He begins with the influence of Tocqueville on American literature, and how his vision brought minimal attention to time and place, and fostered the neglect of southern, black and female writers. Strout demonstrates how writers shed new light on many American themes as they responded to the predecessors. His comparisons cover Hawthorne and Updike; Emerson, Whitman, and William James; Twain and Doctorow; Twain and Faulkner; Lincoln and Jefferson; and Alice Walker and Ralph Ellison. ISBN 0-8135-1516-5 (pbk.) : $13.00. |
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... own magic is entirely naturalistic . But Ragtime links him to the paranormal by portray- ing his love for his dead mother as a motive that drives him to visit seances in the hope of finding a genuine medium who 120 Anachronistic Adventures.
... own magic is entirely naturalistic . But Ragtime links him to the paranormal by portray- ing his love for his dead mother as a motive that drives him to visit seances in the hope of finding a genuine medium who 120 Anachronistic Adventures.
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... hope of a better prospect in some unspeci- fied future . In this respect , they are kin to Hester Prynne , Ishmael , and Huck Finn ; but as an English critic , C. W. E. Bigsby , has remarked , " to be outside society is not to be immune ...
... hope of a better prospect in some unspeci- fied future . In this respect , they are kin to Hester Prynne , Ishmael , and Huck Finn ; but as an English critic , C. W. E. Bigsby , has remarked , " to be outside society is not to be immune ...
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... hope and promise in the grand words and ideas are there- fore balanced by the burden and difficulty of realizing them . The fear of failure , which is also the risk of losing the meaning of our collective selves and our history , must ...
... hope and promise in the grand words and ideas are there- fore balanced by the burden and difficulty of realizing them . The fear of failure , which is also the risk of losing the meaning of our collective selves and our history , must ...
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